What do the Angels Say? Alterity and the Ascents of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Baal Shem Tov
This paper examines the history of boundary crossing and boundary preservation between Jews and Christians in the eighteenth century via an unorthodox path. Two men, a Swedish Lutheran natural philosopher and a charismatic Polish Rabbi, give their accounts of ascents to the heavens, both in the 1740...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-09-01
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| Series: | Open Theology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2018-0032 |